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Download full textKnapp, Susan; Pettine, Susan; Stringham, Carrie; Dana, Susan; Pettine, Kevin – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2023
This paper summarizes the results of a qualitative study focused on the career shifts of professionals who previously worked in non-academic organizations and transitioned into academic careers. It explores the factors that influence the decision of professionals to reinvent themselves as career academics as well as their level of satisfaction…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Professional Personnel, Career Change, Job Satisfaction
Direct linkBegoña Navallas; Cristina del Campo; María-del-Mar Camacho-Miñano – Accounting Education, 2024
This paper aims to analyse how contact with professional auditors influences undergraduates' career decisions to become an auditor as a public interest profession. Students may decide not to join an auditing company due to stereotypes of auditors and, consequently, audit firms may not find professionals with needed skills. Undergraduates were…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Accounting, Financial Audits
Christian, Katherine; Johnstone, Carolyn; Larkins, Jo-ann; Wright, Wendy – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
The workplace for early-career researchers (ECRs) in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) is highly competitive; ECRs urgently need to publish and attract funding to secure their next job. The literature suggests this environment is more difficult for women than for men. They start the postdoctoral period in equal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Researchers, Women Faculty
Mayya, Shreemathi S.; Martis, Maxie; Ashok, Lena; Monteiro, Ashma Dorothy – SAGE Open, 2021
Higher education is anticipating vacancies in senior leadership positions over the coming years. Women are likely to be candidates for these openings, as the number of women pursuing doctoral degrees is rising. However, in the present scenario, there is a dearth of women in senior leadership positions in India. With a purpose to identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Teacher Leadership
Roberts, Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The academic career path for tenure track faculty in most four-year universities in the United States allows those who earn tenure to make an individual choice about whether to pursue promotion to the rank of full professor. Limited research exists on the intrinsic motivators that individuals possess and draw upon to push past obstacles or…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Career Choice, Decision Making
Leah M. Jones Schneblin – Online Submission, 2024
This study sought to understand if a decline in student satisfaction occurs in undergraduate nursing students, and if students recover from such a decline. The purposes of this study were to examine overall undergraduate nursing satisfaction, explore the potential decline in satisfaction as students' progress through nursing school, and to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nursing Education, Student Personnel Services, Student Attitudes
Laila Mohebi; Solomon Arulraj David – SAGE Open, 2024
This study explores the determinants of career choices among Emirati students, engaging 550 students from selected universities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Employing a phenomenological approach, the research utilized a survey questionnaire to understand the impact of various factors such as parental influence, educational institutions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study
Atkin, JoAnn L.; Bowie, Anthony Alland; Cowley, Scott; Eckert, James A.; Ferrin, Bruce G.; Harrison, Robert L.; Lancendorfer, Karen M.; Luqmani, Mushtaq; Luqmani, Zahida; Leingpibul, Thaweephan; Mumuni, Alhassan G.; O'Reilly, Kelley; Quraeshi, Zahir A.; Samples, Robert G.; Veeck, Ann; Xie, Hu; Zondag, Marcellis M. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2022
Many business colleges offer specialized marketing majors in addition to the general marketing major. Given the extra resources needed to maintain multiple majors, in a time when higher education budgets are being strained, a need exists to understand how students make choices among these majors and what students perceive to be the advantages of…
Descriptors: Marketing, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Wynne, Phillip Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Earning tenure is a prestigious, professional achievement for faculty in higher education. The number of tenured faculty, open tenure positions, and newly created tenure positions within higher-education has declined since the 1970's. A reduction in governmental funding to higher education since the Great Recession of 2008 caused higher education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, State Universities, Tenure
Ching, Gregory Siy – Education Sciences, 2021
Academic identity is an important aspect of organizing an academic career. An academic identity is distinct and unique and can be defined as the core attitudes that determine how individuals approach the concept of work. In the current era of neoliberalism, changes to university governance in Taiwan have transformed working conditions and hiring…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Communities of Practice, College Faculty, Career Choice
Chaidez, Maria Jesse – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The California Community College System is an entry point for the majority of first-generation college students. This case study of a community college in Southern California examined the experiences and motivations of both Latinx students in their major/career decision-making process and the community college counseling faculty who serve, educate…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Colleges, Community College Students, Hispanic American Students
Jawahar, I. M.; Shabeer, Sobia – Journal of Career Development, 2021
The social cognitive model of career self-management postulates that negative career feedback will prompt individuals to reconsider career goals, and a study by Hu, Hood, and Creed reported a positive relationship between negative career feedback and goal disengagement. Drawing on this model, we theorized that negative career feedback will trigger…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Career Development, Career Choice, Self Management
Hong, Shen – Chinese Education & Society, 2020
The "2014 Chinese University Faculty Survey" found that: University faculty in China are young, recent recipients of their academic degrees, and have a high level of inbreeding within academia; there is a high percentage of doctoral degree holders; a large proportion are from villages and towns, and have parents with low-level education…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
da Costa, Romina B. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This qualitative research study applies a bounded agency model in investigating the career decision making process of engineering PhD students at a large, public research university in the United States. Through a gender analysis of the career decision-making of men and women PhD students in engineering, this study sheds light on the reasons why…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Career Choice, Decision Making, State Universities
Ward, Kelly; Wolf-Wendel, Lisa – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2017
When is a good time to have children? Where is a good place to raise a family? Should I work full time? These and other questions are common for faculty looking to combine work and family. In this article, we use feminist theory to analyze data from a longitudinal study of women faculty to explore the critical choices women as mothers make about…
Descriptors: Mothers, Education Work Relationship, Career Choice, College Faculty
